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[...] Isabelle Ire de Lorraine I. INTRODUCTION Isabelle de Lorraine was a Duchess of Lorraine from 1431 to 1453 and Duchess of Bar, Duchess of Anjou, Queen of Naples, Countess of Provence and Guise and Queen of Jerusalem, by marriage. She was the daughter of Charles II of Lorraine and Margaret of the Palatinate. She was born around 1400-1410 and died on 28 February 1453 in Angers. II. AT THE BEGINNING Isabelle was well-educated. She was a very beautiful young girl and woman, courageous, prudent, and close to the religion. [...]
[...] She will finally take the decision to join him on the side of Angers. IV. THE DEATH OF ISABELLE It is indeed in Angers that the life of Isabelle will come to an end, because she will die in this city at 53 years old, on February Jean will become the new Duke of Lorraine. She will be buried in Angers. René will be married again, on September to Jeanne de Laval. He will not have children with her, unlike Isabelle, with whom he will have had nine children. [...]
[...] It is through him that she will be Duchess and Queen on many territories. III. THE DUCHESS OF LORRAINE AND THE QUEEN OF NAPLES But Princess Isabelle was first going to become a Duchess of Lorraine upon the death of her father Charles II, which occurred on January Except that at that time women could not rule alone, she had to rule jointly with her husband, René. She becomes Isabelle I of Lorraine. But her accession to power with her husband should have gone smoothly, if somewhere a Count of Vaudemont had not decided to put a spoke in their wheel. [...]
[...] For the reconciliation to take place and be lasting, a marriage will be prepared between the son of the Count of Vaudemont and the eldest daughter of Duchess Isabelle I. The latter will rebuild the church of Saint-Epvre, and add two towers to the Porte de la Craffe. In 1444, another daughter, Marguerite, will become the wife of King Henry VI of England. Jean, the son of Isabelle and René d'Anjou, will be governor-general of Lorraine. Isabelle will live far from her husband, until almost the end of her days, governing Lorraine. [...]
[...] Isabelle leaves Lorraine with her son, Louis, and they arrive together in October 1435 in Naples. From the beginning of the regency, Isabelle runs into a snag from the start: the King of Aragon, angry at having been repudiated after his adoption by the last Angevin queen of Naples, will invade the kingdom. Pope Eugene IV will help Isabelle by sending troops, those of Cardinal Giacomo Maria Vitelleschi, except that tensions will quickly appear between the different chiefs and Aragon will take advantage of it. [...]
